Dax Shepard was think to be in the movieKnocked Up , but his scenes did n’t make it into the final movie . He added that he does , in fact , still get residue from the picture show .
1.Back in 2018,Manny Jacintowas one of the many actorsannouncedto join the cast ofTop Gun: Maverick. He’d be playing a pilot named Fritz, but when the movie came out, Manny’s character didn’t have a single line and can only be seen in the background behind the other actors.
2.Angela Bassettwassupposedto play Jasmine (Brad Pitt’s character’s boss) inMr. and Mrs. Smith.All the scenes she was physically in ended up getting cut, though her voice can still be heard in the movie.
3.Tobey Maguirewas deemedtoo famousforLife of Pi, even though he’d already filmed scenes for the movie.
4.Katherine Langford originallyappearedinAvengers: Endgameas an older version of Tony Stark’s daughter, but the scene wascutbecause the Russo brothers didn’t think it made sense with the ending of the movie.
5.Harry Shum Jr. played Charlie Wu inCrazy Rich Asians —he’s even sixth billed in the credits — but he only appears during a mid-credits scene. Ultimately, Harry’s character was cut from the movie because director John M. Chu felt like there wasn’t enough room to expand on his arc.
6.While KiKi Layne’sDon’t Worry Darlingcharacter was the catalyst for Florence Pugh’s character’s suspicions, she shared onInstagramthat almost all of her scenes were cut from the movie. Kiki said that she and her onscreen husband (and offscreen significant other) Ari’el Stachel were cut “from most of the movie” but are “thriving in real life.”
7.Ana de Armas was originally cast as Roxanne in the movieYesterday, and she even appears in one of the movie’strailers, but by the time the movie came out, her character was entirely cut. Fans were so upset that they were misled, they sued Universal forfalse advertising. The lawsuit claimed “Defendant’s advertising and promotion of the movieYesterdayis false, misleading, and deceptive.”
8.Timothée Chalamet was cast as Matthew McConaughey’s son inInterstellar, but most of hissceneswere cut, and an older version of the character (played by Casey Affleck) was a bigger focus. Timothée said he"wept for an hour"after seeing the movie because he didn’t expect his part to be as small as it ended up being.
9.Amy Poehler originally played a small role inAnchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,but was cut out of the final movie. She said she wasn’t evensurprisedabout being cut: “I was a young gal, hadn’t even gotten my teeth fixed, and I played a bank teller that Maya Rudolph and her gang robbed. Even back then, I was like, ‘This movie is so long, I’m never going to make it in this.'”
10.Robert Pattinson played the son of Reese Witherspoon’s character inVanity Fair,but he didn’t find out until ascreeningof the movie that his role had been cut entirely. “The casting director…felt so guilty…that she gave me first run at the part inHarry Potter, so I was quite glad I got cut, in the end,” he said.
11.Harrison Ford originally made a cameo inE.T.where he played Elliott’s principal. At the time, he was dating one of the movie’s screenwriters and had just wrappedIndiana Joneswith Steven Spielberg a year prior, so it felt like a perfect fit. However, the scene was cut because it didn’t go along with the rest of the movie, and Harrison was a bit of adistractionfrom everything else going on.
12.Andy García was brought in to play Michelle Pfeiffer’s love interest inDangerous Minds, and even he didn’t feel like his character was necessary, so he wasn’tsurprisedwhen his role was edited out of the movie.
13.Paul Rudd was originally inBridesmaidsand played one of Kristen Wiig’s blind dates. But due to time constraints, director Paul Feig didn’t want to introduce another love interest for her character. “There is always that terrible moment when you have to kill your babies,” hesaid.
14.Ellen Pompeo was cast inEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindas Jim Carrey’s character’s ex-girlfriend. She ended up filming all her scenes for the movie but was cut entirely and only mentioned by the other actors. Director Michel Gondry and editor Valdís Óskarsdóttir explained that theyremovedEllen’s character because her inclusion changed how the audience would perceive Jim’s character.
15.Kristen Wiig originally had a fewscenesinForgetting Sarah Marshallbut ended up being cut out of the movie. She played a yoga instructor who falls for Russell Brand’s character.
16.Dax Shepard wassupposedto be in the movieKnocked Up. He said that his character was on a red carpet getting interviewed, but his scenes didn’t make it into the final movie. On his podcast,Armchair Expert, he explained that he does, in fact, still get residuals from the movie.
17.And finally, Uma Thurman was cast to play Blake Lively’s character’s mom in the movieSavages, but she ended up being cut from the film entirely.
